Category: English

stick to his guns
Give you my words

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被算計，被陷害：do a number on someone. He does a number on me. 他算計我。

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hail mary: a long, typically unsuccessful pass made in a desperate attempt to score late in the game.

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small talk. 通常是社交場合中的閒聊. 談一些無關痛癢, 又可以讓場合愉悅的話題. 雖然是small, 但不少人不知道怎麼small talk. 我有一本100 small talk話題的書, 我太太還笑, 要怎麼講話, 還要看書.

10個small talk的ideas

1. pets
2. home town
3. books
4. sports
5. movies
6. music
7. current events
8. the weekend
9. the weather
10. foods
11. hobbies

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Out of woods.

Joe was sick two weeks ago and we were very worried, but now it looks like he is out of the woods. 喬２個禮拜前生病，我們非當擔心，現在看起來他已脫離險境。

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ineptitude.

He was forced from office after a year for ineptitude and corruption. 他被離職因為他過去一年的無能和腐敗

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在撲克牌，像德州撲克，打到最後一張牌，下注完後，把牌翻開比大小叫做showdown.

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最直接的是last minute. Sorry for the last-minute notice

今天華爾街一篇報導談到美國最後一刻，說服歐洲對俄國的石油設油價上限: President Biden and senior advisers, in 11th-hour negotiations with world leaders, secured support for a novel plan that aims to keep Russian oil on global market…

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Monday morning quarterback, 事後諸葛

quarterback(四分衛)是美式足球中的靈魂人物, 他策劃和執行進攻計劃, 一場球的輸贏, 他佔了很重的角色.

美式足球大多在禮拜天, 假如你支持的球隊輸球, 你禮拜一跟同事說球隊的quarterback的戰述不對, 要是你是quarterback的話, 你會怎樣做, 你就是Monday morning quarterback.

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昨天在讀華爾街日報(WSJ), 讀到一篇關於綠能的新聞, 其中提到有一個城市的居民反對在一個受歡迎的海灘下埋電纜:
In the tony Hamptons enclave of Wainscott, residents have objected to power lines running underneath a popular beach.

每次看到這種人名, 但第一個字母不是大寫的, 就很不爽, 明明認識這個字, 只因開頭不是大寫, 我完全不知道它是什麼意思, 只能心不甘, 情不願的拿出字典查. 像這樣的字在英文中還不少:

tony: 形容詞, 非常貴, 且時髦(very expensive and fashionable). 下面這個圖就是那個Hamptons enclave. 夠貴了吧.

peter out: 動詞, 慢慢的消磨. Their enthusiasm soon petered out(他們的熱情慢慢的沒有了.)

harry: 動詞. 不停的攻擊. John continues to harry me.

當然也有人名在俚語中的:

Tom boy: 像男孩的女孩.

rub Peter to pay Paul: 挖東牆補西牆, 比如說交不出汽車貸款, 把房貸拿來交車貸。

Hail Mary: 孤注一擲. 比如籃球賽中, 只剩２秒, 你們還落後２分, 球在後場, 離籃框還有半個球場, 終場前, 你往籃框一丟, 希望會進, 得個3分, 反敗為勝. 這可以說, you made a Hail Mary shot.

ford: 這不是演電影的Harrison Ford, 或福特的車. 這個ford是動詞, 是指涉水. 比如美國的M1坦克可以涉水超過4英尺 It can ford waters up to 4 feet deep.

nick: 刻痕, 傷口

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